How does the University of Chicago, as you know it now, satisfy your desire for a particular kind of learning, community, and future? Please address with some specificity your own wishes and how they relate to UChicago.

根據你現在對芝加哥大學的了解，芝加哥大學如何滿足你對于學習，環境，以及未來的展望?請用具體事例來闡述你和芝加哥大學的聯系。

Notes：Why Chicago？

Question 2 (選答):

Share with us a few of your favorite books, poems, authors, films, plays, pieces of music, musicians, performers, paintings, artists, blogs, magazines, or newspapers. Feel free to touch on one, some, or all of the categories listed, or add a category of your own.

跟我們分享一下你最喜歡的書，詩歌，作者，電影，戲劇，音樂，表演藝術家，畫作，藝術家，博客，雜志或報紙。你可以選擇以上其中任意一項，或幾項甚至全部。你也可以添加自己想要分享的類別。

Notes：這里可以以“list”的形式或者“short essay”的形式來分享給招生官你最喜歡的書，詩歌或者其他。但是芝加哥的文書的重中之重是“Creative”，所以不必拘泥于它列出來的這些category，你可以隨意set你自己最喜歡的東西的category然后來分享。

如果用list形式的話，可以每一個list下面用一兩句話描述一下。

拓展題目：（必答，任選一個）

Essay Option 1.

“The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.” – Joseph Joubert

Sometimes, people talk a lot about popular subjects to assure ‘victory’ in conversation or understanding, and leave behind topics of less popularity, but great personal or intellectual importance. What do you think is important?but under-discussed?

Notes：Joseph Joubert認為爭論，討論的目的不在于勝利與否（ENDS），而在于方法，進程（MEANS）。在ENDS VS MEANS的較勁中，對你來說更重要的是ends還是means？現如今人們為了最后的結果（取得勝利或者便于理解等等）常會選擇一些當下流行的topics去談話或者其他，放棄那些鮮為人討論的話題，而這些往往更富有知識涵養更個體。這個文書題目首先需要確定一個under-discussed的topic，然后需要你闡述對于這個specific topic你覺得過程（MEANS)重要呢還是結果（ENDS)重要？

Essay Option 2.

Due to a series of clerical errors, there is exactly one typo (an extra letter, a removed letter, or an altered letter) in the name of every department at the University of Chicago. Oops! Describe your new intended major. Why are you interested in it and what courses or areas of focus within it might you want to explore? Potential options include Commuter Science, Bromance Languages and Literatures, Pundamentals: Issues and Texts, Ant History... a full list of unmodified majors ready for your editor’s eye is available here:

https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/academics/majors-minors.

Notes：拼寫錯誤常見的就是要么多一個字母，要么少一個字母，或者是字母替換。芝加哥大學各系網站也因為一些有的沒得拼寫錯誤將原本的意思都變了，但沒有被揪出錯誤來。 比如說Computer Science可能因為拼寫錯誤變成了Commuter Science，?Fundamentals: Issues and Texas變成了Pundamentals: Issues and Texts, Art History變成了Ant History...這個essay題目非常有趣。讓你大開腦洞，YY出一個你想學的專業，告訴我們為什么對它感興趣？YY的前提是改變或者移除或者增加一個字母（如前面舉例），來創造一個新的專業。

Essay Option 3.

Earth. Fire. Wind. Water. Heart! Captain Planet supposes that the world is made up of these five elements. We’re familiar with the previously-noted set and with actual elements like hydrogen, oxygen, and carbon, but select and explain another small group of things (say, under five) that you believe compose our world.

Notes：?Captain Planet?（美國90年代流行的TV Show）認為Earth、Fire、Wind、Water、Heart是構成這個世界的元素體系。我們熟知的世界必須的元素是氧氣，二氧化碳，氫等。在這個文書題目里，又要肆意展開你的想象力，對你來說構成這個世界world的元素是什么？（五個以內）比如說對某個生活在中國的外國人來說，他認為構成這個世界的small group of things是Rice、Noodle、Bicycle等等；但對有些人來說，構成這個世界的small group of things是Colors，Canvas等。這個題目的關鍵是不同的人看待世界的角度和感知世界的角度是不一樣的。你value的構成世界的small things必然反應了你是一個什么樣的人。

Essay Option 4.

The late New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham once said "Fashion is the armor to survive the reality of everyday life. I don’t think you could do away with it. It would be like doing away with civilization." Tell us about your “armor.”

Notes：紐約時報的前攝影師Bill Cunningham（比爾.康寧）認為”時裝是在日常生活的現實中生存下去的盔甲。我覺得你離不開它,就像你離不開文明一樣。”那么來談談對你來說你的”盔甲“是什么？在闡述你的armor的時候，需要明白其實it is a way you present yourself to feel self-confidence。可能是你的humor讓你覺得是你的armor，讓你在各方面都非常有自信？可能是你的sensitivity讓你覺得是你的armor，在各方面很有自信？沒有這些就夠不成你這個”人“。

Essay Option 5.

Fans of the movie Sharknado say that they enjoy it because “it’s so bad, it’s good.” Certain automobile owners prefer classic cars because they “have more character.” And recently, vinyl record sales have skyrocketed because it is perceived that they have a warmer, fuller sound. Discuss something that you love not in spite of but rather due to its quirks or imperfections.

Notes：?Sharknado是美國2013年被認為是爛片。雖然是爛片，但其實很多美國人看的時候還是很開心，因為影片給他們帶來了laugh。也有人偏愛黑膠唱片，因為對他們來說黑膠唱片給人一種溫暖滿足的音律感。舉這些例子是想說有些東西明明不完美，有瑕疵或者很奇怪，但卻深得你的喜愛。那么這里就來談談什么不完美，什么有瑕疵，什么比較奇怪的東西卻深深吸引你。之前有個學生，很喜歡坐那種老舊的綠皮火車，肯花上幾十個小時去一個地方，而不要做飛機或者高鐵。對他來說坐綠皮火車的意義遠大于到達目的地（比如每個站都有不同口音的人上來，讓他通過這種方式了解不同風俗等等）。

Essay Option 6.

In the spirit of?adventurous inquiry, pose your own question or choose one of our past prompts.?Be original, creative, thought provoking. Draw on your best qualities as a writer, thinker, visionary, social critic, sage, citizen of the world, or future citizen of the University of Chicago; take a little risk, and have fun.

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